The Hebrew Binyan "Nif'al": Two Patterns of Verbal Passivization?

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Abstract

This paper sets out to examine a unique morphological pattern of Hebrew passivization. It is commonly assumed that different thematic realizations of the same concept (e.g. passive, causative, reflexive) are derived from the same basic entry via thematic arity (valence changing) operations. The cross-linguistic variation in deriving new predicates via arity operations is accounted for by the Lex(icon)-Syn(tax) Parameter (Reinhart & Siloni 2005)
Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)183-193
JournalAnuario del Seminario de Filología Vasca Julio de Urquijo: International journal of basque linguistics and philology
VolumeXLVI-1
StatePublished - 2012
Externally publishedYes

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